[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, in various formats from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Thanks... have you noticed under the most promising heading: Post-Installation Setup and Testing there are only directions for windows or specific `unix' users? And that the linux directions rev

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > There was a note at the end of the emerge: > > * You might want to run: > * "emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.16-r2" > * if this is a new install. > > did you do this? (First I've backed of 5.16 since I couldn't even start it from: /etc/in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some >> things didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) >> >> You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a >> bit. >> > Holly, Thanks for the usu

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyone here who has perused mysql.com will know it is a difficult task > to find basic information there. This was something of a boneheaded undertaking at mysql.com. Somewhere I got that address as the source of docs etc. For any other interested par

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] good info > Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some things > didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) > > You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a bit. > > Just my 2 Eurocents, as you see, I'm not a My

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:44:05 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I > mean, not Gentoo. Yes, in various formats from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. > Except that most of those flags are no longer valid for the unstable > version... > > ACC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > > Since syncing yesterday and emerge -u world, I now get > mysql-5.0.16-r1 when I emerge mysql. It doesn't have the docs built > either regardless of what USE variable are in force. Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I mean, not Gentoo. P

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Fish schrieb: >> On 11/23/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I disagree. Check the output of "emerge -pv dev-db/mysql". >> >> No, look at the ebuilds in portage: >> >> The mysql builds currently available are: > [...] >> mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. Please send >> output of: >> >> grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use > > > dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc > > > Harry, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Francesco R.
Alle 19:37, mercoledì 23 novembre 2005, Harry Putnam el ga butta: > |"Francesco R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > |[...] Snipped good info here ... Thanks > | > |> also the "configure" option you see at compile time may _not_ be > |> the same the ebuild used, _but_ what the ebuild set alw

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mattias Merilai wrote: > >> I do not know much about mysql, but looking at the latest ebuild it >> seems that it does not look for a doc USE flag. > > I disagree. Check the output of "emerge -pv dev-db/mysql". The original output I posted: Calculati

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
"Francesco R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Snipped good info here ... Thanks > also the "configure" option you see at compile time may _not_ be the > same the ebuild used, _but_ what the ebuild set always override the > MySQL default. So we cannot really tell what is passed to the com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:56:43 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I don't need a specific version I simply want the docs to be built. > Adding a use flag of doc or docs does not cause it to be built. At > least not in what was current portage day before yesterday. That's because your/etc/portage/package

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming you really need a specific version of mysql, and do not want > to merge a version that already has the doc USE flag, the general idea > is that you will want to: I don't need a specific version I simply want the docs to be built. Adding a use f

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/portage/profiles/use*.desc Those are a HOWTO about creating ebuilds? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/23/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/23/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And this can be foundwhere? > > /usr/portage/profiles/use*.desc Oops, sorry, thought you were asking about where to find the USE flag. I was reading out-of-order...and not thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/23/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And this can be foundwhere? /usr/portage/profiles/use*.desc -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. > Please send output of: > > grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Mattias Merilai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > seems that it does not look for a doc USE flag. You will have to > manually change the ebuild to --with-docs. Gentoo's ebuild howto will > explain you how to do that. And this can be foundwhere? I've been jerking around on gentoo.org for over 1/2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Harry Putnam wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> You influence it, by setting USE flags. I'd guess, that "doc" >> would be the USE flag you're looking for. So, put something >> like >> >> dev-db/mysql doc >> >> to /etc/portage/package.use: >> >> echo dev-db/mysql d

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > You influence it, by setting USE flags. I'd guess, that "doc" > would be the USE flag you're looking for. So, put something > like > > dev-db/mysql doc > > to /etc/portage/package.use: > > echo dev-db/mysql doc >> /etc/portage/package.use Just